April 22, 2016

Pre-fail checklist, taking a stand, and fulfilling work [Venture Kindling]

This Venture Kindling post feature short bits of information I’ve tripped across or developed that can help you light a fire or revive a fire for your venture. Kindling from the web: Pre-fail checklist. Most entrepreneurs fail. In fact, you shouldn’t ...

April 21, 2016

Can drive and contentment coexist? [podcast]

I’ll admit, I’m driven…and impatient. Many entrepreneurs and leaders are. It’s partly what makes them successful—and often discontent. In this week’s episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, my co-host Armin Assadi and I ponder the question, Can drive and ...

October 9, 2013

The secret I want to learn

Success stories don’t do it for me. There are far too many of them, and far too many people selling their secrets to it. The most pretentious pitch THE secret, as if to suggest an unchallengeable universal and primal ...

April 12, 2013

Dream Assassin #5: Complacency

Your dream is at risk. Five killers are out to put an end to it—perhaps even before it gets out of the starting gate. These Dream Assassins are Fear, Envy, Shame, Pride, and today’s spotlight killer: Complacency. This is ...

March 13, 2010

Thought for the Day – Bernard Berenson on Time

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.– Bernard Berenson My daughter recently lamented on Facebook that she wished she had more hours in the ...

February 24, 2010

Thought for the Day – Epitaph of Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.”– Epitaph of Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, is said to have conquered much of the ancient world ...

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